The 5th episode of Ore no Imouto picks up right where the previous incest-y episode ended, continuing the charming story of a beautiful 14-year-old model both blessed and cursed by fate to walk the bold path of an otaku.

The episode does start off right at the grounds near the Comiket’s Big Sight (or as it’s called in this particular show, the “Ocean Sight”), but first, a quick look at the OP:

The OP for the show is actually fairly mutable, usually changing a few frames with elements related to the upcoming episode, but this episode also had Kirino’s model friend Ayase was promoted to whichever rank allows for name placement in an OP sequence.

Being a closet otaku in this sort of show tends toward “troublesome”.

Ah…

Siscalypse’s Mikoto, working a double shift as Kyosuke’s tsundere trainer.

This phone happens to have some fun lines – to paraphrase one:

“I’ve seen it on the news…in Japan, there are anime and games where they do perverse things to little girls…”

Perish the thought!

This suitably scandalous otaku-related headline reads something like:

“Popular Game Copycat Deviant (did something) to a Little Girl…”

This one goes roughly like so:

“Game Copycat Otaku Deviants Continue To Spread”

For those who might be curious, the concept of an especially negative perception of otaku held by commoners is actually not at all an invention of creative license by anime screenwriters.

Comiket is often treated as a mass gathering of eccentrics in media reports and the status of otaku is assuredly seen as a negative by most Japanese, despite an increasingly high profile for otaku with the moefication of Akihabara and such mainstream drama as “Densha Otoko” softening their image a considerably from the early 1990s, when the memory of the famed “Otaku Murderer” were still fresh.

This shot bodes very well for the eventual DVD/BD release, as the ethereal fog suggests a pending ero-upgrade for the home release.

This episode lacked a full ED sequence as the last episode did, but it did provide a gorgeous ending illustration as usual:

The artist for this one is みつみ美里 / Misato Mitsumi (website), an eroge artist involved with company Leaf and primarily responsible for To Heart 2’s memorable art.

The cute ED song was, again, a new number, this time named オレンジ / Orenji (Orange) sung by Kirino’s seiyuu Ayana Taketatsu, sounding a bit more like her Azunyan voice than usual for this show.

As a bonus, the CMs aired during the episode included this one for the upcoming PSP game:

The screenshots shown seem to be of the mostly sanitized, light-ero visual novel variety that normally are as close as it gets to an eroge on a console, plus some 3DCG ingame avatars, awkwardly animated as non-motion captured CG characters often do.

Awesome awesome awesome. Everything about this anime feels smooth (especially Kirino’s skin), the atmosphere is fitting, there is nothing that feels out of place, the scenes transition well into eachother etc. I’m glad that this seems to be turning out so well.

Definitely my favorite new show of the season, and that’s really saying a lot because I hate incest stuff. On the other hand, I love tsunderes, and Kirino’s a particularly cute version of one. I also appreciate the animation quality and the light fanservice–not enough to be the focus of the show (which usually makes the writing suffer as a result) but it is nice to see the occasional payoff panty shot for all those lingering views of Kirinos legs in short shorts, etc.

Is it weird that I find the lingering shots of her legs in short-shorts to be more exciting than most panty exposure I’ve seen in recent years? At this point, panty shots are so ubiquitous that they’re almost a little dull – whereas, how many shows lavish their heroine’s thighs with such attention?

Heh, I actually watched this when it aired last night on Tokyo MX (11:30 PM Japan Standard Time). Wasn’t able to understand the details of what the characters were saying, but I knew enough to get the basic gist in each scene. No subs! Maybe my Japanese skills are finally going somewhere (I hope)…

On a sidenote, I swear anime looks better when you watch it as it airs than it does if you download a fansub (or even a RAW).

This was the worst and best episode.
Ayase turning into an epic bad yandere – even Kotonoha or Rena wouldn’t know what to think. USODA !!
Oni-chan receiving death threads form Ayase.
Tsunderes everywhere.
Epic bad lines like “I love you as much as I love eroge”, “all according to keikaku”.
I’m confused: are they serious or is this a parody to all moe, tsudere and yandere out there ?
I thought I skip this show but this ep. was just so epic bad, I want to see how far they can go.
The other episodes were just bad but this one was epic…bad 🙂
Ayase’s and Kirino’s friendship sure recovered quickly…

Yeah, I have to admit, Ayase scared me in this episode. Expecialy when she was saying “lies, lies, lies” over and over in a rather Higurashi-esque way. Not to mention that her virulent Otaku-hatred was both angering and creepy/scary at the same time.

Yeah, the “I love you as much as I love eroge” line was a bit narmy, but it was well intentioned, and I found it kind of sweet.

On the other hand, the “all according to keikaku” line, I thought, was fucking hilarious. I mean, OreImo already references a lot of things. So this is one of the few situations where the fansubbers added in something extra that made sense within the referencing/parody context of the show (Fansubbers making fun of other Fansubbers) and made the line even funnier.

If you accept that someone who has a real life (education or work, friends, family, animation-unrelated shopping) but will always be thinking of anime-related references, is an otaku, then yes. I even know a few.

I still love this show, I feel bad for the brother who has so little common sense he is willing to look like a pervert to a cute model who seemed into him in exchange for getting slapped by her and kicked in the nuts by the sister he saves… he needs therapy.

What do we have to do to awaken her lesbian side? I mean come on! She likes games with lots of cute girls, she gets a friend so pretty they pay her to take her photos, the obvious progression of this story is her getting a crush on her friend.

It would also make for a really dramatic twist in their relationship as brother and sister, with him hiding his feelings in support of her little sister new found sexuality.

But nooooooooooooooooooo, we can’t have any lesbians, girls who like and are confortable with porn are ok, girls who cosplay and push their friends into cosplay are ok, girls who don’t do guys are no deal however, as if that ruined any hope her fans had to screw her.

well I kinda agree and kinda don’t I mean before I did think she was a pretty kl but Idk after this ep I think I changed my mind lol even though she just concerned about her friend she did come off a little bitchy about it. but of course there are far worse then her she maybe A little bit but to be honest I can think up lods more more bitchy then her shes not even in my top 10 lol.

There’s no way they can include what’s in the later volumes with what episodes we have left, 8 ? If we get another season, that’s another thing though… personally I wouldn’t mind a second season with some wincest action.

Only one thing to say about this episode : Ayase is a fucking bitch. Definitely deserves a place in the Top10 of characters I hate.

I’m going to be rather disappointed if it does develop into incest. The normal platonic brother/sister relationship they’re developing is cute. It’d ruin it if they just ended up fucking. That’s just my opinion, of course.